CADopia 14 Standard is an advanced CAD designer that helps with creating, editing and viewing DWG drawings. It lets you open and save any existing AutoCAD files.

Standard vs Pro

The Standard version of the utility is limited to essential drafting, dimensioning and annotation tools. In case you are looking for advanced features, such as VSTA (Visual Studio Tools for Application), photorealistic rendering, Visual Basic utilities, and PDF exporting options, you can have a look at CADopia 14 Professional Edition.

Support for two types of interfaces

CADopia 14 Standard gives you the possibility to switch between two different user interfaces. The classic one follows the traditional pattern and includes menu bar, toolbars, palettes, graphics area, command window, and status bar.

The ribbon-based GUI provides an easier way for understanding the program’s powerful editing features. The parameters are organized in a series of tabs so you may quickly activate the preferred one.

The multi-tabbed environment allows you to keep multiple drawings opened and switch between them. A comprehensive help manual is included in the package in case you want to find out more about the app’s capabilities.

Importing/exporting options

CADopia 14 Standard is able to open DWG, DXF, DWF, DWS, DWT, or SHP files. What’s more, you can save entities and convert a block to a file, create a package containing the current drawing and dependent files, export the drawing to DXF, SAT, BMP, SVG or other file format, print data, and save the current project to a file on your system so you can import it for future adjustments.

Viewing and drawing utilities

You are allowed to refresh and rebuild the current drawing, zoom in or out of the file, and divide the drawing window into multiple views.

If you want to define 3D drawings, the utility puts at your disposal several tools for a better visualization of your models. You may inspect models using a camera view and setting the view direction, and place light sources in drawings for generating a realistic presentation.

The application is able to automatically back up your data so you can recover it in case of errors, check the current drawing for integrity and fix errors, recover corrupt drawing files, and discard unused references.

Editing features

CADopia 14 Standard helps you format the drawings, make use of drawing tools for creating new entities, such as lines, arcs and circles, manage entities (e.g. copy, mirror, move, rotate, scale, split, weld, explode), as well as create and insert blocks for binding entities together.

What’s more, you are allowed to fill in areas with hatch patterns, solid or gradient color, display entity measurements or relations between entities, as well as embed text, table and voice notes.

A top DWG editor

All in all, CADopia 14 Standard comes with tons of utilities for helping you design 2D and 3D CAD drawings, and is suitable for architects, engineers, students or anyone interested in creating, editing, and analyzing professional drawings.

CADopia 14 Standard was reviewed by Ana Marculescu, last updated on February 19th, 2015